Changes in Tcl/Tk 8.5.12

Released [L1 ] July 27, 2012

Tcl Changes

Changed Tcl behavior

  • Character/codepoint values from Unicode 6.1.
  • source accepts a leading BOM.
  • exec: the << redirection is now binary safe.
  • dict exists returns 0, not error, on invalid dict argument.
  • Index values from switch -regexp -indexvar are now consistent with regexp -indices.

Updated packages

Tk Changes

Changed Tk behavior

  • Revised interpretation of numeric color values when < 48 bits are specified.